LAAGA CHUNRI MEIN DAAG -MANNA DEY -SAHIR - ROSHAN (DIL HI TO HAI 1963)

A SMALL TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT SINGER MANNA DEY . MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE . SINGER : MANNA DEY LYRICS : SAHIR LUDHIANVI MUSIC : ROSHAN MOVIE : DIL HI TO HAI ( 1963 ) By 1954, Manna Dey became popular among musical circle across film industries of various Indian languages. He became nationally famous after release of Do Bigha Zamin in 1953 where two of the songs sung by him and composed by Salil Choudhury became hits. Salil Choudhury worked with Dey right from 1953 to 1992 in Hindi films and made Dey sing even in Bengali and Malayalam films right from late 1950s to early 1990s. His association with Shankar-Jaikishan and producer Raj Kapoor had begun while working for Awara, but their combination became famous while working together for Boot Polish in 1954 and the trio worked in many films together from 1954-1971 whose musical scores were appreciated, irrespective of its box-office fate, like Shree 420, Chori Chori, Mera Naam Joker. C. Ramchandra worked with Dey very first time in Insaniyaat in 1955 and then recorded songs with Dey consistently even in 1960s in films like -- Tallaq(1959),Navrang, Paigham, Stree(1961), Veer Bhimsen etc. In 1956, he sang with a new batch of singers. He recorded his first duets with Sudha Malhotra like "Ghar Ghar Deep Jalao Re" from Ayodhyapati in 1956 with Binata Chatterjee in the duet "Tum Mile Mil Gaye Karaar" from Grand Hotel (1956) composed by Suresh Talwar and then his first duet with Sabita Banerjee in the song "Jamine Hamari Jamana" composed by A.R.Quereshi from Laal-E-Yaman in 1956 and with singer Meena Kapoor in the song "Rim Jhim Jhim Rim Jhim" from Pardesi (1957) composed by Anil Biswas. Dey turned into an independent music composer in Hindi films with Maha Poojaa in 1954. He sang 83 Hindi songs in 3 years from 1953--55 and his demand increased such that he sang 45 songs in the year 1956.His career reached in peak form when he recorded 95 Hindi songs in single year 1957 and 64 in 1958. His peak period in Hindi film industry is considered to be from 1953-1969 where he recorded 758 Hindi songs of which 631 came between 1957-1969. He worked extensively with other music directors like Naushad, K.Dutta, Vasant Pawar & Ram, Vasant Desai, Ravi, S.K.Pal, Avinash Vyas, S. N. Tripathi, Sanmukh Babu, Nissar Bazmi, Husanlal Bhagatram, B.N. Bali, Sushanta Banerjee, O.P. Nayyar, G.Ramanathan, T.G.Lingappa, Nirmal Kumar, Ghulam Mohhammed, Bipin Dutta, Rabin Banerjee, Roshan, Sapan Jagmohan from 1954 to 1968.